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2. Complete the table. Use a dictionary to help you.

verb

general noun

person

employ

employment/ unemployment

employer/employee

resign

no

retire

no

train

/

apply

3. Answer the questions using the words from the Word List.

1 Is it difficult for women to climb up the career ladder?

2 What should a person do to make a success?

3 What features of character should a successful person possess?

4. Read the text and match these headlines to the parts of the text.

a) Getting a job- 1

b) Hard times

c) Leaving the company

d) Happier times

e) Moving up

Paula’s Career Ladder1

1) Getting a job

When Paula left school, she applied for (= wrote an official request for) a job in a local company. They gave her a job as a trainee (= a very junior person in a company). She didn't earn much (= didn't get much money/she had a low salary), but they gave her in-house training (= the company gave her help and advice to become better), and she went on/did several training courses.

2) _________

Paula worked hard and her prospects (= future possibilities in the job) looked good. Her manager/boss (infml) was very pleased with her progress and she soon got a good pay rise (= more money every week/month). After two years she was promoted (= was given a higher position with more money and responsibility). After five years she was in charge of (= the boss of) a department with five employees (= workers) under her (= under her control).

3) _________

By the time Paula was 30, she decided she wanted a fresh challenge (= a new exciting situation) and a career change (= to work in a different kind of job). She wanted to work abroad (= work in another country), so she resigned (= officially told the company she was leaving her job; also quit (infml) and started looking for another job. After a month she got a job with an international company which involved (= included) a lot of foreign travel. She was very excited about this and at first she really enjoyed it, but ... .

4) ____________

After six months, Paula started to dislike the travelling and living in hotels. She didn't do well in the job either. After a year the company dismissed/sacked her (= told her to leave), and Paula found life difficult. She was unemployed/out of work (= without a job) for nine months until she got a part-time job (= working only part of the day or week) in the kitchen of a restaurant.

5) ___________

Paula loved the restaurant. She enjoyed learning to cook, and two years later she took over (= took control of) the restaurant. After a year, she opened a second one, and after 20 years she had 10 restaurants. Last year Paula retired (= stopped working completely) at the age of 50, a rich woman.